|
Posted by mm on May 13, 2006, 10:02 pm
wrote:
>mm wrote:
>> It took until Wednesday for someone to say how the girl was killed
>> last Friday in Baltimore.
>>
>> It seems that the fence she was touching went in AFTER the power line
>> beneath it. The power line went to a light pole maybe 50 feet away
>> used to illuminate the softball field.
>>
>> The fence was not the backstop, iiuc, but a 3 1/2 foot tall chain link
>> fence near the backstop. There was a cement footing for the pole, but
>> the pole extended about a quarter inch below the cement, and rested on
>> the cable. Eventually, it wore through the insulation and touched the
>> hot wire.
>
>For a 3.5' tall fence post, the post hole was probably dug about 1.5' -
>2' deep. Not that deep at all. Considering the bottom of the post
>miraculously stopped just at the cable, it's very possible that the guy
>digging it, knew he hit the cable, was thankful he didn't die, and
>figured that the concrete would cover the top of the cable and prevent
>the post from touching the cable itself. Of course the cable being the
>limiting factor in the hole depth would mean that the post would not be
>set at the same height as the rest - assuming the guy was relatively
>careful about setting his posts. I'd check the top of all of the
>poles to see if that particular pole was noticeably higher than the
>rest, or to see if it had been cut (a cut in the field would look
>different than a factory cut post end).
I was right across from the park last Sunday morning after this
happened (the previous Friday afternoon), and I did go looking for it.
I found two softball fields, but not the one in the pictures. Either
some of the park is only accessible on foot or I missed a road. It's
a very big park.
I guess they dug up the fence or they dug beside it to figure it out,
and by now they've probably taken the fence down. I think it was only
10 feet long or so.
I was invited to the same thing tomorrow morning, but I'm not going,
and I don't think I'll be able to find out any more details.
>R
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap